MĀORI INCORPORATIONS
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – MāoriLand Court
For more information, go to maorilandcourt.govt.nz
Te Kooti Whenua Māori – MāoriLand Court (MLC) is the
New Zealand Court that hears matters relating to Māoriland.
Accessing Pātaka Whenua
Step 1
In your web browser, visit the MāoriLand Court website www.māorilandcourt.govt.nz and click
the green tab in the top right area labelled “Pātaka Whenua – our online portal”.
Other status types
As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the
following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the MāoriLand Court:
Crown Land
Crown Land Reserved for Māori
General Land (which maybe vested in a MāoriLand Trust)
General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a MāoriLand
Other status types
As this update is specifically for Māori Customary Land and Māori Freehold Land it excludes the
following land status types that fall within the jurisdiction of the MāoriLand Court:
Crown Land
Crown Land Reserved for Māori
General Land (which maybe vested in a MāoriLand Trust)
General Land Owned by Māori (which maybe vested in a MāoriLand
Former Chief MāoriLand Court Judge, who then became a
Justice of the High Court, ET Durie provided the following analyses of the nature of Māori rights to land;
Maori see themselves not as masters of the environment but as
members of it.
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua
Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono
a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Special Sitting
At Christchurch
MāoriLand Court, Justice and Emergency Services Precinct, 20 Lichfield
Street, Christchurch
Monday 30 September 2024
Judge W W Isaac Presiding
Join Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 849 4978 1892 | Passcode: 660739
PĀNUI
NO.
He pānuitanga tēnei kia mōhiotia ai ka tū Te Kooti Whenua
Māori ki te whakawā, ki te uiui hoki, i ngā tikanga o ngā tono
a muri ake - Nau mai, haere mai
A Special Sitting
At Christchurch
MāoriLand Court, Justice and Emergency Services Precinct, 20 Lichfield
Street, Christchurch
Monday 30 September 2024
Judge W W Isaac Presiding
Join Via Zoom
Meeting ID: 849 4978 1892 | Passcode: 660739
PĀNUI
NO.
It is very clear, however, that a sudden flood
of investigations began in Hawke’s Bay in
March 1866, leading to rapid tenurial change
in the province and a contraction of the area
in Māori landownership as grantees sold their
interests to private purchasers.